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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Figaro or Falstaff or Tartuffe lampoon and debunk through laughter, and the author's purpose is to bring about a _______."
(a) Tear to the eye.
(b) Vision of truth.
(c) Radical anarchy.
(d) Social change.

2. In what Shakespearean play is Gloucester blinded?
(a) Henry IV.
(b) Hamlet.
(c) Henry VI.
(d) King Lear.

3. What type of theatre is usually distinguished by the absence of what is called style?
(a) Industrial Theatre.
(b) Holy Theatre.
(c) Classical Theatre.
(d) Rough Theatre.

4. In the third section of the book the author claims, "It is always the ______ theatre that saves the day."
(a) Honest.
(b) Proud.
(c) Popular.
(d) Deadly.

5. "Just as in life the wearing of old clothes can start as defiance and turn into a posture, so ______ can become an end in itself."
(a) Holiness.
(b) Style.
(c) Roughness.
(d) Beauty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Of whom does the author write, "never just made a slice of life--he was a doctor who with infinite gentleness and care took thousands and thousands of fine layers off life."

2. Whose recent production of Coriolanus underlines the whole question of where illusion begins and ends, according to the author (and the time the book was written)?

3. "The moment of performance, when it comes, is reached through two passageways--the foyer and the..." what?

4. The closer the actor approaches what, the more requirements he is asked to separate, understand and fulfill simultaneously?

5. Who created the method termed "alienation" in the theatre?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the author view as the "ideal" training for an actor?

2. How does the author approach the concept of liberation with Shakespeare and Brecht?

3. How does the author view Method acting?

4. What does the author say of change and liberation regarding "The Rough Theatre"?

5. What is the author's presumed opinion of the works and style of Brecht? How is Brecht similar to Shakespeare?

6. How does the author discuss the process of theatre design?

7. Who is Bertolt Brecht and what was his major contribution to the modern theatre?

8. What is the audience's role in a final production?

9. What is one example of Shakespeare's which the author uses as an example in "The Rough Theatre", and what is he saying with this example?

10. What does the author discuss as an ideal in Marat/Sade?

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